242 on board. Prospects for them not looking good…
Saw another video. It just appeared to slowly drop to the ground. No obvious reason why.
Video here, almost looks like it was going in for landing
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/9xQis3Yshc
It's the first hull loss of a 787.
im sure someone with more knowledge can clarify this, but to me that looks like a stall.
Flaps weren’t put out on lift off.
FR24 shows it making an intersection take off giving it just shy of 2000m runway, in Indian afternoon heat loaded with fuel for a 7/8hr flight…. I’m surprised it even got airbourne?!?
Video looks to show no flaps extended, or at most flaps 1 which the 78’ can use for take off in some circumstances, can’t imagine the conditions in this case would allow that tho.
Live coverage on Sky News now.
desperately sad to think of all the loved ones waiting in Gatwick India and elsewhere. I’m sure there were people bound for Dublin on it too.
Im no expert - but is 2000m not well short of the requirement for a plane of that size?
Hard to believe that the Dreamliner allows the pilot to attempt takeoff at that weight with no flaps?
I’d imagine so yes, and as good as FR24 is, there are some inaccuracies here and there! If full length was used (and it may have been) they’d have over 11k feet, which is more than enough.
The lack of trailing edge flaps is a problem tho, they should have had all sorts of alarms firing off to warn them, unless they got weights wrong and configured flaps 1?!? I’m only speculating of course!
Yeah, that's what I saw. Just looks like as if it is landing. Terrible.
that was my initial reaction. Hard to think that can happen, especially on the latest generation of aircraft.
Sky saying pilots had over 10,000 hours experience between them.
What about bird strike?
what’s the benefit of an intersection takeoff for an aircraft that size and weight making that trip ?
Save maybe 5 -10 minutes taxi / holding time ? On a 10 hour flight ?
TTerrible Tragedy.
Another Boeing plane.
I'm no Boeing fanboy but that is a ridiculous comment.
Almost 1200 B787s are flying and this is the first fatal accident.
I've read it would need about 3700 and 4500 m depending
169 Indian nationals
53 British
1 Canadian
7 Portugese
12 crew
RIP
I think it was already flying for several minutes after take off? Somebody might like to fill in the details, like shouldn't it have been higher in the sky at this point? or …
Absolutely horrific. Especially for the passengers, they must have known what was up. Those last couple of minutes of your life....
https://x.com/aviationbrk/status/1933169063456325790
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No, full video footage from the airport shows the plane taking off from the runway. It struggles to climb after initial lift and then drifts down. You can see the explosion in the distance from the airport. The flight duration was very short
Just posting a correction to my own post, FR24 now shows the aircraft using the runways full length for takeoff!
An awful tragedy, RIP
30 seconds from take off to crash
Yeah, there's cctv footage on X from perimeter of airport, 30 seconds from time it left runway to seeing it disappear behind the buildings, barely got off the ground. Rip to all the lost souls, hopefully most were unaware of their fate.
Cant believe that guy walked away from it. Seat 11A. Absolute tragedy of him loosing his brother. But to walk away from that..
Just reading that, crazy story.
